VH1's Acceptable.TV embraces and resists the Internet. The new half-hour sketch series (tonight, 10 ET/PT) gives viewers the choice of what to watch, via Internet voting, but wants to establish quality standards in an ever-expanding sea of user-generated material.

Sarah Silverman the TV character is unwittingly offensive, telling an old lady she looks old, lying to get out of helping a friend move and breaking out in a musical number about bodily waste. Sarah Silverman the stand-up comic knows exactly what she is doing with The Sarah Silverman Program, a six-episode series premiering Thursday (10:30 ET/PT) on Comedy Central.